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TELEGRAMS..

[Reuter's

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," TUESDAY

StaR CHAMBER GOVERNMENT.

When Mr. Cecil Holliday rosigned from the Chairmanship of the Municipal Council some weeks ago, the oft-made suggestion was re

LONDON, 8th September. The Cambridge-Harvard Boat Race,peated in many quarters, that the meeting of

Cambridge beat Harvard in the boat race over the Putney to Mortlake course, by two lengths, in 19 minutes 18 seconds.

The race, which was a splendid one, was witnessed by an absolutely, record crowd, delirious with excitement.

Later.

The winner of the Yale and Harvard University boat mes challenges the winner of Oxford and Cambridge next year.

9th September. Great Britain and France. At a banquet, given at the" conclusion of the French military maneuvres, M. Etienne, the French Minister for War, complimented General Sir John French most warmly, and begged him to convey to the King, "whom we regard as a Frenchman," and to the Queen "who is the jewel of the British people," the homage of the French, Govern-

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General Sir John French, in returning thanks, said: "We look forward to the time when your officers will visit us, when they will be welcomed as cordially as we have been welcomed here."

The Jesuits.

our City Fathers should be opened to the press, and that full reports should be published of the preceedings, so that the ever-increasing body of the ratepayers should be more fully inform ed than they are at present, of maltors concern. ing the government and the vital interests of these Settlements. The suggestion is a wise one, and the indications are that the Shanghai ́public, who are slowly moved to action, but, who, once aroused are very determined regarding the attainment of any object which they may have in view-witness the Tramways, which, first recommended by the ratepayers nearly thirty years ago, are at length visibly materialising-will insist before very long upon its adoption. We are still in the dark as to the reasons which influenced Mr. Holliday to take the step which he did, and so far from the Council's showing any desirq to enlighten us on the subject, they have been exhibiting a disposition lately to withhold the medicum of information, public topics generally, which it has been their custom to dole out to the pub lic once a week in, the shape of "Municipal Minutes'

We have had no Minutes now for weeks, save a short table of vital statistics compiled by the respected Health Officer; and although the fi, ures thus furnished are, a doubt, excel- lent men at pabulum in their way, we would suggest that they are by no means commen- surate with the very healthy appetite which this community has for information regarding its public affairs. The withholding of the usual adequate reason for keeping the people of Shanghai in the dark as tu the progress of the many public matters which we all know are now pending between the Council and the Chinese authorities for example, or betwees

JAPANOSU PAYMASTER'S

ENBRZZLİMENT.

THE STORY OF A CURIO DEAL.

On the 7th attimo, First-class Paymaster Mayeda Toyobachi, attached to the 11th Army Division at Zentsuji, Sabuki, was arrested at Suma on a charge of embezzlement of public foods, and was some days later escorted to Zenisuri, where he will be tried by a military Court. i

From details obtained by the Osaka Jijl it appears that this officer was sent to Peking in 1903 In August and September jast he ad- vanced the sum of Y2,500 from the funds in his charge to an intimate acquaintance, a dealer in curios, and the loan was promptly repaid. Encouraged by the success of this negotiation, the paymaster in February or March advanced Vocus to the curio-dealer, who was to make extensive purchases, ship them to Japan, and, divide the profits with the officer. This scheine, however, proved a complete failure. The dealer returned to Japan with his purchases, but the Customs duty and freightage involved him in difficulties. He sold his stock of curios by auction for Y2,000 and went to Nagaya, but his further, movements have not yet been

traced,

Meanwhile Paymaster Mayeda was, ip-lek- ing waiting to hear from the curio-dealer, and was compelled to falsify his accounts to conceal his embezzlement. On June 13th he was transferred from Peking to the headquarters of the 11th Division. On the way from Chion to Zentsuji he come to Kobe, and instituted inquiries for the missing curio-dealer. Find ing no clue, he obtained leave of abience and continued his serach. In the interval the.

Father Werriz, a German Jesuit, has beco| Minutes is a retrograde step. There can be no defalcations at Peking were discovered, and elected General of the Jesuits. His pro gressive ideas are expected to infuse fresh life into the Society.

The Chinese Customs. The Times, commenting on the China Association niemorandum to Sir Edward

Grey, declares that it is mere effrontery of the -Chinese to assert that the radical changes in the Customs Service will not make any changes in the future The productiveness of the immense British capital in China, and especially that in Shanghai, is menaced by the vital changes, and we have absolute right to insist on the cdict of May being revoked or superseded.

{N. C. D). News.]

Japanese Loans.

Tokio, 6th September. Mr. Takahashi, Vice-Governor of the Bank ol Japan, left Yokohama to-day per N.Y K.S. Kaga Maru for Seaule. He goes to Europe in connexion with the datation of loans.

The Stranded

| Manila Cobleners.]

Manchuria.” Honolulu, September 7. The big liner Sancheria on the racks near Honolulu has been found to be but little dainaged and the indications now are that she will be taken if the reef with bat very small injury to her plates.

It has been some time since any report has been had from the Wanchuria and the last ones were not trássuring. At the time the Login left Honolulu, the general impression seemed to be that the big lines would be practically a total ,wreck. It now appears that she will n

not be

lost from the Pacific for any length of time, but will be taken off the racks in a condition that will enable her owners to put her son on her old 2010.

FATAL LAUNCH COLLISION.

TWO CHILDREN DROWNED,

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the Council and the Consular Body. Govern meat by Star Chamber methods is an an

ninadera community, and its omaly' in

the Kobe police being communicated with, he was arrested at Suma as above-stated.-Japan Chronicle:

IN PRAISE OF SWIMMING.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1906:

THE HIGHER SWIMMING, No other sport fills you with the same brief | exultant exhilaration. No other sport slings and whips all your nerves into such' ecstatic vitality, Swimming makes you feel that you' are alive in every poze and follicle, avery thew and tinaw, every ganglion and tissue. It electrifies your blood and fills your veins with lightning. Mr. Swinburne, the faureate of swimming, has sung this rapture in many a seventh heaven of swimming. The higher song. We cannot all soar with bim into the swimming is only for the few. Most of us would shudder at the thought of a swim before That is Mr. Swinburne's favourite dawn. hour. In the epilogue to "Songs Before Sanrise" he calmly assumes that dawn is the conventional swimming time:

As one that are a juna day rino

Makes senward for the dawn, and tries The water with delighted limbs That taste the sweet dark sea, and swims Right eastward under strengthening skies, ' And sees the gradual rippling rims Of waves whence day breaks blossom-wise. Take fire ore light peer well above, And laughs from all his heart with love, And softlier swimming with raised head. Feels the full flower of morning shed And fluent sunrise round him rolled That laps and laves his body hold. With fluctuant heaven in water's stead, And urgent through the growing gold Strikes, and sees all the spray flash red, And his soul takes the sun, and yearns For joy wherewith the sea's heart burns. When Tristram of Lyonesse goes forth to swim that immortal swim, day has not sloughed the night:

He watched the dim sea with a deepening

smile, And felt the sound and savour and swift Of waves that fied beneath the fading

flight

night

And died before the darkness, like a song With harps between and trumpets blown

along.

THE TOKYO CAR-FAKES,

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Intimations.

THE

́OPPOSITION TO THE INCREASE.

Public feeling agulost the increase; of the fates on the Tokyo electric-cars"appears to be increasing. An association hambaan, formed to oppure the increase, and has callert & public indoor meeting for the 5th instant, The views ROBINSON PIANO of the association are, says a vernacular report, to be expressed in the most peaceful manner,

and the Government and the tram company will be urged to reconsider their decision.

if the views of the public as magressed by this meeting, are ignored, and the proposed increase takes effect, then the association will convene a mass meeting of protest in Hibiya Park on the 11th.

Baron Senge, Governor of Tokyo, has been interviewed by a representative of the Jiyu Tsushin concerning the tram-fare question. fle said there were some people who were fomenting an agitation and attacking the Home Minister about the increase of the fare, But it was he (the Governor) who sanctioned the increase and he did so without consulting the Municipal Council. If, therefore, there were any points in the question which deserved the condemnation of the public, he, not the Home Minister, would be first to blame. in his opinion, the four sex fare alter amalgama tion was not inadequate, especially in view of the fact that the rails and cars of the thres train companies are now in such a worn out condition that they required more or less radi- cal repair in the near future. Moreover, many people-and they were mostly tradesmen, liv- ing both in the city and suburbs-who had

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hitherto to pay nine sen (xclusive of transit Steinway, duty to reach a particular part of the city, would henceforth be able to reach it for only.

four sen.

The advantage of the new system would be too obvious even to school children to require explanation. Governor Senge did In the dark he "launched his body like a boat." not doubt that any citizens with common-sense lle went to meet the morning across the waves. w.re not only unopposed to the new system, with their flickering crown of shows," into but were welcoming it. If public' opinion- the confluence and the refluence of the sea.", genuine public opinion-ecognised the These stem raptures are beyand us common increase of the fare as unreasonable, he would

Bechstein,

Bluthner,

Winkelmann,

practice here gives point to the follow friend who had been spending a week on the men who-bathe-from-bathing-machines clad--willingly take the responsibility upon himself Collard & Collard,

ing passages from

R sicking account

of shanghai which has lately appeared in The World, as one of the Round the Empire series of articles :—

To this day Shanghai remains, not a politi- cal possession, but a commercial settlement, in which the degrading machinery of Chinese sovereignty is inconveniently and immorally intermixed with the administrative proced are established by the European setiers for the self-government of their community."

The article proceeds i-

"The government of the international settle ment is in the bands of a so-called municipal council consisting of,ten members, who are annually elected by European householders paying a minimum monthly rent of fifty dollars The electorate under this franchise is about eight hundred-a small proportion of the foreign population, now amounting to ly twelve thunsand. Subject to the trol of the local consulɔ,

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WITH SOME MEDITATIONS ON ITS UTILITY.

The other day I heard a strange tale from à

river. He and his wife had rowed down from Oxford by 'easy stages. When they started from Clifton Hampden on Tuesday, 17 July; the bell of the pretty little church on the bluff above the river was tolling for a funeral. In the riverside meadows the haymakers were busy. The sun was dancing on the water, and a cool wind was whispering in the leaves, but the note of death shattered the peace and grace of stream and sky...

OMEN OR COINCIDENCE?

On the following afternoon, as they were passing Moulsford, the summer air was torn again by the same sombre sound. The hell of the tiny church, which is familiar in riverside pictures, was tolling for another funeral. On the Thursday, as they left Henley, the church hell was toiling for a third funeral, Thus, on three successive days they heard the sepulchrai bell. It is not often that one hears a bell tolling for a fansat in the country. Still rarer is the sad council'sound heard on the banks of the Thames. But to hear three riverside tallings on three succes- sive days must be regarded as a very excep- tional experience. Naturally, lie triple sound startled my friend and his wife. Each silently revolved its import. Neither is superstitious, bil both felt that it looked very like an omen. They refrained from communicating their thoughts to each other.

is charged with all the duties of execu live government, including the administration of the police and volunteer force. The consuls, who form an international Court, under the presidency of the senior, are in their turn responsible to the Ministers of the Power, at Peking, who exercise a veto on the proceed. ings of the Shanghai Municipal Government through the local consular authorities. The municipal council bas' no judicial functions, which are exercised by a variety of courts, each of the lower retaining jurisdiction over its own subjects....... For the British community, with a poputation of four thousand, there is a Supreme Court presided over by a chief justice, Besides with a police nugistrate as assistant. having local jurisdiction at Shanghat, this court the Coint of Appeal from the de ci- cansuls at the various sions of British treaty parts of China. 18 the case of nation. alties other than British the co sul-general or consul of each country is the judicial author. Won, Shing, the coxswain of the steamity for his own people. For the ligation and launch Attike, which is owned by the Mits trial of Chinese subjects being in the interna Bussan Kaisha, was arraigned before Mr. 19. Įtional settlement there is what is known as the H. J. Gompertz by Inspector Langley, of the Mixed Coat, which is presided over by a Water l'alice, at the Magistracy this morning, Chinese magistrate, who is assisted by three to answer a charge of manslaughter. It was assessors--one British, one American, and the alleged that through his carelessness two sain. pan children were drowned in the harbour. The defendant pleaded not guilty and was held ia bonds of $;co to come up for examination "The complicated system of government at no f, on Saturday. At about half past ten

described above can hardly endure much 'o'clock last night the steam launch Mike was longer. Throughow the settlement' there is a

returning to her wharf at the Praya East. call for reform, and a desire to substitute a re- When off Bowring on Canal she ran into a sampan, which was made fast to a buoy, hitting it amidships and Jurning it over. Besides the parents there were two children on board the sampan. Both children were pitched into the sta and were drowned. The bodies have 35 yet not been recovered and the police are at present having the spot where the collision occurred dredged in 1ke hope of recovering the bodies. The coxswain, when he was arrested,

said it was an accident and that the sumpan did not exhibit any figlits.

:

THE 5.6. Sachsen, Imperial German Mail

other German."

Further on we come to some interesting com

meni,

On Thursday evening, dowards sunset, na they were paidling quietly along under Quarry Wands, in the reach where the Harvard and Cambridge crews are now practising for the forthcoming race, the open, if it were an omen, was fulfilled in a very sudden and very drama. fashion, writes Mr. James Douglas in the Morning Lender. A tall young fellow was punt ng sedately along the Berkshire bank. In the punt with him were his mother and two younger ladies. They were all chattering and laughing when suddenly bis pole snapped, he fell into the river, and was drowned. It was tragic scene, the shricks of the distracted mother lacing the hushed serenity of the evening air with intolerable agony. The lad never rose to the surface and his body was not found until night has fallen on the river! My friend and his wife then confided to each other their

unspoken thoughts about the three tollings they had heard. Was it an omen or a coincid eace? They do not know, and I do not know, but they forsook their small boat and finished their trip on Salter's steamer.

THE PEOPLE'S BATH CLUN.

in decorous costumes-an indignity which our and resign office.-'apun Chronicle. - poet spucas Not for us these rigours. Not for us the Swinburnian' dive into "The Lake of Gaube," down through "the darkness, icier than seas in midwinter." We may envy the daring poet who'

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Swiftly and sweetly, when strength and breath fall short, and the dive is done, Shoots up as a shaft from the dark depth shot, sped straight into sight of the sun. But we must be content with tamer delights. For my part, confess that I like my swim at gang, when the sea has been warmed and the air has been aired I am not above the noble.

pleasure of padding on the sunny sands of Cromer or Coho or Keem Bay. Why should There is one boon which swimming alone we leave that bootless joy to our children? can give. It enables you to look at the sky from an unearthly point of view. Swimining softly on your back, you can forget that the solid globe is under you, and gaze at. fairy cloudland in a dream of rest. It is the only posture that yields the absolute music of name. less forin and disembodied colour, pure poetry of vapour, nir, and fiie set free from the bondage of material prose.

WITCHCRAFT, IN THE

PHILIPPINES.

After a hundred years of desuetude, witch- craft bas again come to light; this time in the Philippine islands. The persecutions in Salem, Massachusetts, by our forefathers have been echoed in the present generation at San Isidro, in the province of Nueva Ecija. The story of the San Isidro witchcraft is so misty supersti tion of misled fanatics but a burning reality,

In the town of Muñoz a woman was accused of being a witch. bhe was taken out into the public square and beaten by the natives of that barrio until she "vomied a chicken." After this a live rat and public demonstration of the woman's guilt she was taken to the justice of the peace of San Juan de Guimba, of which town Muñoz is a barrio, While incarcerated in the jail us San juaa the woman attracted large crowds of tople who were collecting there and who were amusing themselves by throwing stones, spitting and otherwise abusing the unfortunate prisoner.

The matter was brought before the provis cial governor and upon investigation it was found that the justice of the peace of San Juan had tried the woman for witchcraft and has sent the proceeding, supported by the declaration of witnesses, to the provincial fiscal, and they were being seriously discossed by that official.

COMMERCIAL.

TO-DAY'S INTELLIGENCE.

Noun,

Buyers-Hongkong Fires $327, HK., Č., and M. Steamboats $28, Shell Transports 27/6, Raubs 58, Kowloon Wharves Stof, China Providents $9.60, Dairy Farms $17, Tramways $2.5, Watsons $13, 5. C. M. Posts $32.

Sellers-Hongkong Banks $810, Canfor Insurances $320, Hongkong Fires $330, China and Manilas Sza, Douglases $47, Hongkong Docks $35, Hongkong Lands $110, West Points Sco, Humphreys Estates Siri, Cottons, 513 ex div., China Borncus $t, Green Islands $22, Electrics 515, Ices $136, Ropes $29, China Light and Power $101, Powells $101.

Sales: HK, C, and M. Steamboats $28, China Sugars $158.

Nominal: National Banks $47, Unions 5785, China Fires 593, Indo-Chinas $74, Shangbai Docks Tis. 108, Hongkew Wharves Tls. 2424. Hongkong Hotels 5115.

TO-DAY'S EXCHAнah, Selling London-Bank T.T. ..... / DD. demand........

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1 leave the interpretation of the foreshadow. ng knells to others. What strikes me as being more clear in its warning is the fact that the drowned youth was unable to swim. As the river at the fatal spat is full of long ribbon weeds, it is possible that even a swimmer might not have escaped. The late catastrophie Upon hearing of the abuse of the woman, how. A at Marlow, and many milers, show that the ability to swim is not proof against the embrace of strangling weeds. But at least the swimmer

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│gular form of Government for the present amateur arangements. During the past five rears the foreign population has nearly doubled whilethe Chinese inhabitants residing within the European boundaries have increased by ahun- died thousand. There arenearly1welvethousand foreigners and four hundred and fify th asand Chinese in the settlement, the adjoining Chi- nose city containing a hundred and fifty thou swim has none. It is amazing that anybody sand more. The Europeans-bankers, mer chants, shippers, contractors-are too busy to should be unable to swim. The moral of this find time for public duties, which can best be story is plain. Every boy and girl ought to be performed by a responsible Governor at the taught to swim before they leave school. The head of a trained civil service. British in- Board of Education ought to pet swimming into the curriculum of our public elementary Aluence is at present in the ascendant, there steamer, which left Shanghai on Saturday, 8th being seven British an the Council and only schools. I suppose I am ex.ravagant, but i inst, would appear to have had a lively time three members of other nationalities. If it should like to see a swimming-bath in every en her voyage down from Shanghai, for both were possible by common consent of the whole playground.

Apart from its usefulness, swimming is the on that day and on Sunday she had to alter her foreign community to bring about a pacific course to avoid the typhoon, of which we have coup demt, and ses up the present popular most delightful form of physcial exercise. It British Consul-General as Governor, this heard so mech and seen so little. Yesterday

would doubiless be the best way of dealing is the only sport which frees man from the after dodging the typhoon, she again altered with a problem which is assuming acute ancient tyranny of clothes, enfranchising the her course to investigate some would-be sig. dimensions, for which there seems to be no body, liberating the flesh, unmanacting the limbs. It makes the flesh lyrical, The mala of distress, and on bearing down upon constitutional solution, and which must even- them she found two infts lashed together, and unly be solved by revolutionary change."lovelies: sight in London at this moment is the

Shanghat Times.

Serpentine at sunset, when the golden water is 21 Chinese, apparently of the fisherman clast, doing their best to "hold on." They were 100

ivoried by hundreds of laughing boys. It is a THE ratifications of a Treaty Commerce, exhausted to give any account of them recently signed by iapan and Chile, are to be bewitching bacchanal, all ivory and gold. selves, but it in understood that

they exchanged at Washington between Viscount wish some great painter would capture the riot were part of the crew anıl passengers Aoki, Japanese Ambassador, and the Minister and rapture of it all, with the cool carnations of a junk which was caught by, and foundered for Chile. The Japanese Government is taking of these young founs dancing on the grass stepa lo conclude commercial, treaties with all in, the typhoon. The rescued Chinese were

under the green light that falls filtered through brought to Hongkong, and will be sent back to their homes in due course,

the countries of South America, and it is ext

pected that negotiations will be next entered the leaves of the treas. It is the Bath Club upon with the Republic of PanarTMą,

of the people.

ever, the fiscal ordered ber release.-Cablenews.

THE WEATHER.

The following report is from Mr. F, G. Figg, First Assistant of the Hongkong Observatory:-- On the 11th at 11.30 -The barometer has risen considerably over S. China and E. Japan. The recent typhoon is shown, this morning, as a feeble depression near the mouth of the Yangize.

Pressure is high to the N.W. of China, and also over E. Japan, the normal being exceeded by 0.2 inch and upwards over the latter area. it is still in defect, about of inch on the China Coast, between Hongkong and Shanghai. Probably a low pressure trough will form over the N. part of the China Sea,

1--Hongkong and neighbourhood, N.W. winds, moderate; fine.

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